Does Hollywood Encourage Teen Promiscuity?

Because anyone who has even made out knows it doesn't play out so perfectly coordinated. These girls just need to be talked to by older people but not necessarily their parents. Of course their friends their age will hype up sex and promiscuity to justify there own actions. I had sex when I was ready, not because my friends had lost theirs.

Hollywood and the music industry glamorize it. They've been doing it for some time now...

Yeah, blame on media, they're the ones who caused the teens to become a pregant by having sex with older, ugliest and alcoholic men.

A study by Pardin, L'Engle and Brown (Linking Exposure to Outcomes: Early Adolescents' Consumption of Sexual Content in Six Media) of 3,261 7th and 8th graders indicated a statistically significant association with adolescents' sexual activity and future intentions to be sexually active, with measures of movie and music exposure showing the strongest associations. But then again, you don't have to be a scientist to figure this out.

But it's a movie, so there is very little validity in anything that's in that movie. The child's upbringing should trump some sex scene. Plus, wouldn't that be a PG13 movie for sexual situations?? That 13 should know better. It's not like a G movie has two characters going at it and having children.

they do encourage it. but it's on the parents if the kid's watching movies with sex scenes.

I just wish it would encourage more middle age promiscuity and senior citizen promiscuity!

Is a pigs but pork?

Yeah but,Wall Street also encourages kids to become big time cons and Congress (including presidents) encourages kids it's OK to sleep around.

Does it encourage it, or present the reality of it? who produces the schtuff anyway? Someone gets funding for it....endowment of the arts?

Of course. Hollywood is filled with "progressives" which are by definition, nihilists. Their ideology teaches that America's traditional values are bad and needs to change, and the way they do their part is by "normalizing" behavior and beliefs that are contrary to traditional American values.

Humans are animals, sex has always been there as evidenced by the massive population growth throughout History. It's just advertised more now because of tv, movies, internet, porn sites, etc....... Better than wars....

Absolutely.

All you need to do is look at what they run on MTV, VH1, and other channels.

Yes. BUt we are all a part of it. If Hollywood was not making money off of sex, they would not peddle it. It the #1 box office movie was a religious film or a film with a possitive family message...we would see more of that. Think about Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. Even in the midst of people disliking Gibson for many reasons and religion for well being religion...when the movie was a hit...it was marketed all over and that was that. Money is the key my friends. So demand Leave it to Beaver and lay money out for it and that is what you will see.

Making it so acceptable does! Everything seems acceptable (sex) these days!

yes

The question is does it encourage teen promiscuity. I don't think Hollywood has decided it wants to turn all our teenagers into whores. It makes what sells, it just so happens that sex sells.

That doesn't mean everything is dandy. The excuses Nickelodeon has I'm not sure. I've certainly seen some questionable material on a network supposedly about kids for kids, that one makes no sense to me. Disney isn't marketed solely to kids though, a lot of their shows market to teens, and I don't think for a minute that teens today think about sex any more than when I was teenager nearly 20 years ago.

Does Hollywood encourage promiscuity? I don't think so. Our inability to provide a good upbringing for our children leaves it up to others to provide examples, and Hollywood has never been about providing good examples of how to live (it'd be quite a boring movie).

Well said. I know what you mean about Nickelodeon. A number of shows from the eighties on come to mind that I can't remember the names of, but were full of teens and tweens in sexual situations. The Degrassi incarnations really stand out for that though. Back before Teen Nick came into being, it followed cartoons, with the motto "Degrassi...We go there", and "go there" they did. The thing is though, at least in my opinion, they did it very well. It was good television. With Disney, I think we have to be careful to not confuse their programming with the antics of some of their stars off screen.

One thing though, and it may simply be semantics, but I'm not sure I agree with this "Our inability to provide a good upbringing for our children leaves it up to others to provide examples....". I think many are indeed "capable" of being good parents. They just don't. But like I say, could just be two sides of the same coin.

YES!!!!!!! And they promote teens dressing like whores, teens being disrespectful to their parents, and teens getting pregnant without marriage. Hollyweird is a bad influence.

When hasn't it been though? Yes it puts more sex and more skin into the movies than it used to, but it's always been people making bad choices and doing what they shouldn't. Hollywood makes what sells, not with an underlying current that they want everyone to have a giant orgy.

The problem is one of parenting, and the apparent inability for kids to tell the difference between what they see on TV and movies and the real world they walk out into everyday. Back in the "golden ages" people watched movies and TV to be entertained, and then they went back to their real world and behaved like real people. It isn't Hollywood's fault that life sucks so bad now that everyone wants to make the real world match their entertainment world.

I agree. Parents HAVE to have and keep the relationship and the influence.


When I see something on a channel that I don't like, I explain what is wrong and we go from there.

Could make them curious!

As if they wouldn't be already? I grew up watching the Flintstones, Betty Ruble was hot (and always showed a lot of animated leg)! The Munsters, Lily or Marilyn. The Brady Bunch, Jan was whiny - but it was all about Marsha anyhow. Giliigan's Island had Ginger, she was okay, but Mary Ann was the fantasy superstar to me. I saw An Affair to Remember when I was 14, Deborah Kerr was freaking hot. Course there was Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany's (there's a role model huh?) I saw at the same time, and Audrey Hepburn was the pinnacle of fantasy superstardom for all time.

Curiosity has always been around.

Audrey Hepburn was a good role model! Debra Kerr was a great actress! My childhood crushes were Alan Ladd and Paul Newman! Guess I liked cowboys! Could not stand the Brady Bunch! Also could not stand Mickey Rooney! Saw lot of movies as a child! They do so much for your imagination, and you are right about curiosity!

Nothing wrong with Audrey Hepburn, I was referring to the role she played in Breakfast at Tiffany's (call girl/prostitute/certainly out of my price range). :)

Do not remember that!

Comes from many directions!

Isn't it unfortunate ... but now-a-days everything is hyped up with sex and promiscuity it is the dismal truth

Always was!

I would have preferred a third answer like "other", for instance.
Not alone Hollywood and TV, but also Internet, magazines and other media are flooding us with porn and incite people into adopting false ideals and trends. Children and teens are naturally curious, and such "information" and advertisement is totally inadequate.

And the lack of a 2 parent household!

EXACTLY. That alone counts up for a lot of the malfunctions in todays youth,.

Please I raised 4! One by myself who turned out the Best!

It is pleasing to see someone who beats the odds.

It is actually more difficult to raise children together! Men and women do not often agree, and one is always the dominate one!

It isn't really about how easy it is on the parents, it's about having both role models around and available. Lack of two parents in the same home isn't that bad either if both are still around and available. It's when one disappears that there could be the void.

I was raised by a single mom and I turned out fine. It would have been nice to have a dad around - but not mine he was a piece of crap. I had a grandfather that filled his shoes far better than he ever could have. Of course, raised by a single mom causes problems with my wife who was raised by both parents... her dad took care of everything so she expects me to do the same, but I know a woman can do anything a man can (and sometimes better). :)

I try to NOT be domineering. It is totally wrong. I try to listen to my wife and have been more successful over the years. She is more right about quite few things.
We found out that listening to each others Ideas we have avoided problems that popped up from time to time.